Farming Yeast.

[PetenNewburg]

  I've been sucking down the last bottled effort and saving the trub from the bottles.  I will make an attempt to farm the left over yeast from carbonation.  I know there is living yeast as my storage bottle is pressurized at each addition.  I have a 1000 ml Erlenmeyer flask with a yeast nutrient culture at the ready.  Once the beer bottle settles I'll dump the "beer" and "wash" the yeast.  I'll update if it works!

[PetenNewburg]

  It would have worked I think if I had put it in the frig before it turned all green and slimey with gray fuzz on it!!

  So, on to my next great idea!  I'm going to make a two gallon wort of just DME and yeast nutrient.  I will then "can" it as described in the canning post.  I'm going to divide a single vial of yeast into four 1 quart bottles to attempt to make starters for two brew batches.

[PetenNewburg]

  Revisiting this topic!  I saved 1.9 liter of sparge wort at 1.040 or something like that from my Imperial Stout.  I just washed yeast from the Primary of the same brew.  So I will add half of each to a number of sterile  500ml flasks and create starters, ... I hope.   I plan to brew a all grain Grolsch clone Saturday, a all extract Irish Stout on Sunday and re-brew the Robust Porter Tuesday.  I'll use the starters for the Irish & Porter.

[wvbrewer]

No thats making good use of those beasties.  I have never tried that.  Maybe one day, but I do not brew that often.  Let me knowif they still perform a good job..

Dave

[PetenNewburg]

  The farmed yeast worked great on the Irish Stout!  I saved the wort from my gravity tests & put it in sterilized jars, I added a little extra water, LME & nutrient.  When I rack the Irish Stout to the secondary I'll wash the trub and farm it again!